Foreword --
The Lichfield prodigy --
London; or, the full tide of human existence --
Running about the world --
The harmless drudge --
The bread and tea of life --
Rasselas --
Cock Lane and a pension --
Enter James Boswell --
Shakespeare --
Folding his legs --
Streatham and the Hebrides --
The lives of the poets --
Jam moriturus.